Great, Glorious, and Correct: The Origins and Afterlives of a Maoist Slogan

General Secretary Xi Jinping stood atop Tiananmen Gate and thrust his fist in the air while saying: 'Long live the great, glorious, and correct Chinese Communist Party.'It was the dramatic conclusion to his speech commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).Descriptions of the Party as 'great, glorious, and correct' () appear occasionally in official media and on banners at important Party events.The abbreviated version of the slogan, wei guangzheng (), uses the first character of each word and looks like a person's name, for which reason in the rest of the essay I will refer to it by its popular usage as a person named Wei Guangzheng.This shorthand, which in popular culture means 'righteous' or 'politically correct' verging on 'delusionally arrogant', appears much more frequently in casual 'Spectators in Front of a Large Sign on Nixon's Motorcade Route in China', Byron E.